#STAR WARS MOVIES ROGUE ONE YEAR MADE MOVIE#
#STAR WARS MOVIES ROGUE ONE YEAR MADE FULL#

Imagine another version of Rogue One that came out in 2018 without the Darth Vader ending. But it ended up stealing the entire show. Rogue OneвЂ™s show-stopping final sequence in which Darth Vader goes hog wild with his lightsaber was a reshoot, that wasnвЂ™t even in the original script. By 2018, the feeling reversed: there was too much nostalgia.ДЄs Graeme Mcmillan recently wrote, Rogue One was the canary in the coal mine for various behind-the-scenes Lucasfilm dust-ups.

Prior to 2015, the fuel for Star Wars nostalgia was the scarcity of Star Wars movies. Red Leader, from A New Hope, returned - for the first time - in Rogue One. Rogue One kicked A New Hope nostalgia into overdrive Sure, it works, but the meltdowns are pretty bad.

#STAR WARS MOVIES ROGUE ONE YEAR MADE MOVIE#

Star Wars nostalgia is precarious by definition, and itвЂ™s probably not a good thing that Lucasfilm still relies on it to sell movie tickets. The reason Rogue One didnвЂ™t get smacked with вЂњtoo much fan serviceвЂќ criticism ahead of time is only because of the year it was released. 2016 was arguably the last safe time to release a Star Wars movie before culture wars and fatigue overtook the fandom. This was before the release of the divisive Last Jedi and long before the shoulder shrug of Solo or the full-on facepalm of The Rise of Skywalker.

#STAR WARS MOVIES ROGUE ONE YEAR MADE FULL#

In 2016, mainstream adoration for Star Wars was in full swing, and though there were grumblings about The Force Awakens, that film was almost universally beloved at the time. In a recent interview, Industrial Light & Magic artist John Knoll (the guy who basically invented Rogue One) points out that Solo was initially supposed to be the first so-called вЂњstandaloneвЂќ Star Wars movie before Rogue One was moved up in its place. In retrospect, Rogue One was released at the perfect time. Rogue One nostalgia relies heavily on timing

This isnвЂ™t a feature unique to Star Wars, but as December 2021 marks the five-year anniversary of the release of Rogue One, the nostalgia for that prequel movie is strong.Д«ut is Rogue One actually a good Star Wars movie? A closer look reveals the filmвЂ™s many flaws, and how it set the franchise on a dangerous trajectory that Lucasfilm never really recovered from. The first was turned into the 2016 movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, while the second is a throwaway line of dialogue about Bothan Spies from Return of the Jedi - later explained in the non-canon 1996 comic Shadows of the Empire # 4.ДЇor as long as most fans can remember, the Star Wars franchise has been obsessed with various backstories, turning single lines of dialogue from the original trilogy into spinoff books and movies. Thanks to the fact that there are two Death Stars in the classic Star Wars trilogy, it turns out there are, in fact, two spy missions to obtain secret information about Death Stars. Bothan spies did not die to bring the Rebels the Death Star plans.

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